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Oct'22 ‘Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir’ by Jann S. Wenner (2022)
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Aug'22 ‘Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police
-Part One & Part Two’ by David A Wilson (2022)
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Aug'22 ‘The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld’ by Peter Edwards & Luis Horacio Najera (2021)
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Jun'22 ‘This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life’ by Stefanie Green, MD (2022)
|¦ Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), set in Victoria BC, I'm not sure ¦|
Apr'22 ‘The Ministry for the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)
|¦ "We can't imagine the suffering of people of the future so not much gets done on their behalf….narcissism!" ¦|
Mar'22 ‘Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now’ by John Doerr (2021)
|¦ "Fight or Flight? Flight is not an option; we cannot outrun global warming.
We're going to have to fight this one out with every weapon we can muster."
Greta Thunberg quote: 'Fairy tales of eternal economic growth' ¦|
Feb'22 ‘What Strange Paradise’ by Omar El Akkad (2021)
|¦ "And yet there's an emptiness, something missing." ¦|
Feb'22 ‘The Nature of Canada’ by Colin M. Coates & Graeme Wynn (2019)
|¦ "Diseases remind us that national boundaries are often of little significance for environmental forces" ['Nature We Cannot See' (2019)]
"Ecological sense does not come easily to moderns and postmoderns" [quote by forest scientist Stan Rowe in 'Advocates and Activists' ¦|
Nov'21 ‘Renegades: Born in the USA’ by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen (2021)
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Nov'21 ‘Forever Young: A Memoir’ by Hayley Mills (2021)
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Nov'21 ‘Indian School Days’ by Basil H. Johnston (1988)
|¦ 'Johnston has created a story that radiates compassion, humor, and hope.' ¦|
Aug'21 ‘Qigong Meditation: Embryonic Breathing - Part I: Foundations’ by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (2003)
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Apr'21 ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need’ by Bill Gates (2021)
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Apr'21 ‘The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet’ by Michael E. Mann (2021)
|¦ "the climate crisis" ¦|
Mar'21 ‘Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson’ by Annye C Anderson and Preston Lauterbach (2020)
|¦ The life and afterlife of bluesman Robert Johnson (1911-1938) as told by his nonagenarian stepsister. ¦|
Mar'21 ‘A Promised Land’ by Barack Obama (2020)
|¦ A mighty fine book. ¦|
Feb'21 ‘Becoming {Audiobook}’ by Michelle Obama (2018)
|¦ Michelle Obama's autobiography - read by her
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Jan'21 ‘To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest’ by Diana Beresford-Kroeger (2019)
|¦ biodiversity, “mother” trees, ... ¦|
Dec'20 ‘The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz’ by Erik Larson (2020)
|¦ "On Winston Churchill's first day as the UK Prime Minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium." ¦|
Oct'20 ‘Calico Joe’ by John Grisham (2012)
|¦ A novel ¦|
Jul'20 ‘The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change’ by Gleb Raygorodetsky (2017)
|¦ "What makes Indigenous communities uniquely valuable in the global quest for climate change solutions is that they are where the traditional practices & understanding of nature meet modern technology & scientific insights." ¦|
Apr'20 ‘This Is All a Dream We Dreamed’ by Blair Jackson & David Gans (2015)
|¦ An oral history of the Grateful Dead ¦|
Feb'20 ‘Year of the Rabbit’ by Tian Veasna (2019)
|¦ An intense graphic novel about a family living in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge Reign [1975-1979] ¦|
Nov'19 ‘Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End’ by Atul Gawande (2014)
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Sep'19 ‘Fearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances)’ by Denise Donlon (2016)
|¦ Denise Donlon is a Canadian business executive, television producer, author, public speaker, host, and member of the Order of Canada. ¦|
Jun'19 ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ by Max Weber (1905)
|¦ A historical discussion, written in 1905, of the relationship between the ethics of ascetic Protestantism and the emergence of the spirit of modern Capitalism ¦|
May'19 ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson (2011)
|¦ Steve Jobs (Feb. 24 1955-Oct. 5 2011) ¦|
Feb'19 ‘City in colour: rediscovered stories of Victoria's multicultural past’ by May Q. Wong (2018)
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Oct'18 ‘Herbie Hancock: Possibilities’ by Herbie Hancock and Lisa Dickey (2014)
|¦ "I'd finally figured out how to turn my obstacle into an opportunity,
which opened up a whole new world of possibility." ¦|
Oct'18 ‘Been So Long: My Life and Music’ by Jorma Kaukonen (2018)
|¦ "Finns are a stoic lot." ¦|
Sep'18 ‘Origin Story: A Big History of Everything’ by David Christian (2018)
|¦ "What will the Earth look like in two thousand years?" "Will human beings achieve a sustainable relationship with the biosphere?" ¦|
Aug'18 ‘Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times’ by John Perry Barlow (2018)
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Jul'18 ‘Paul Simon: The Life’ by Robert Hilburn (2018)
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Jul'18 ‘The Life of Yogananda’ by Philip Goldberg (2018)
|¦ Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952) ¦|
Jul'18 ‘Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff’ by Michael Nesmith (2017)
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Jul'18 ‘The Imitation of Christ’ by Thomas A' Kempis (1427)
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Jun'18 ‘Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968’ by Ryan H. Walsh (2018)
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May'18 ‘From Lone Mountain’ by John Porcellino (2018)
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May'18 ‘The Untethered Soul’ by Michael A. Singer (2007)
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May'18 ‘All the Money in the World’ by John Pearson (2017)
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Apr'18 ‘The Confessions of Saint Augustine’ by St. Augustine of Hippo (400)
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Mar'18 ‘A Legacy of Spies’ by John Le Carre (2017)
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Feb'18 ‘Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars’ by David Hepworth (2017)
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Jan'18 ‘Spy of the First Person’ by Sam Shepard (2017)
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Jan'18 ‘What Is It All but Luminous’ by Art Garfunkel (2017)
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Jan'18 ‘Seduced by Mrs. Robinson’ by Beverly Gray (2017)
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Jan'18 ‘Petty: The Biography’ by Warren Zanes (2015)
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Dec'17 ‘Tales from the Tao: The Wisdom of the Taoist Masters’ by Solala Towler (2017)
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Dec'17 ‘Understanding the Messages of Your Body’ by Jean-Pierre Barral (2007)
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Dec'17 ‘The Stranger in the Woods’ by Michael Finkel (2017)
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Oct'17 ‘Lightfoot’ by Nicholas Jennings (2017)
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Oct'17 ‘Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ by Tom Petty (2007)
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Oct'17 ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by Peter Wholleben (2015)
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Sep'17 ‘Moby-Dick’ by Herman Melville (1851)
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Aug'17 ‘Uncomfortably Happily’ by Yeon-Sik Hong (2017)
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Aug'17 ‘Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life’ by Scott M Marshall (2017)
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May'17 ‘The Jesus Sutras: Rediscovering the Lost Scolls of Taoist Christianity’ by Martin Palmer (2001)
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Apr'17 ‘William Lyon Mackenzie King: A life guided by the hand of destiny’ by Allan Levine (2011)
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Mar'17 ‘Weapons of Math Destruction: How big data increases inequality’ by Cathy O'Neil (2016)
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Feb'17 ‘George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door’ by Graeme Thomson (2015)
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